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Re:Shots fired at MIT - report of an active shooter near Bld... by spitx on Friday April 19, 2013 @06:08AM (#5575785)
UPDATE 6:

  08.49: The names Sunil or Sunny have been heard on the
  Boston police scanner tonight referring to Suspect No 2,
  the man who is still on the run. Sunil Tripathi, a
  philosophy major at Brown University has been missing for
  a month. Local press reports say that Boston police have
  identified him as a suspect.

  Mr Tripathi is described as a left-wing Marxist of 
  Indian Brahmin descent, whose father is a successful
  software developer. His family set up a Twitter account
  and a Facebook page last month to help the search for 
  him. Mr Tripathi was first identified as a suspect in a
  crowdsleuthing exercise on the Reddit website.

  The other suspect, who was wearing the black hat, has 
  been named as Mike Mulugeta. He is thought to have died 
  in hospital after a shoot-out with police.

  Their identities have not been officially confirmed.
Source:

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/world/americas/article374...

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Re:Shots fired at MIT - report of an active shooter near Bld... by ajju on Friday April 19, 2013 @06:12AM (#5575794)
"Brahmin"!? His caste is relevant, how, exactly? Only a British (or worse, Indian) newspaper would find the necessity to point out the caste of some person being tried by a public mob based on things heard on a police scanner.
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Re:Shots fired at MIT - report of an active shooter near Bld... by asimov42 on Friday April 19, 2013 @08:09AM (#5576146)
I have never read an Indian newspaper making reference to someone's caste unless it was somewhat related to the story.
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Re:Shots fired at MIT - report of an active shooter near Bld... by ajju on Friday April 19, 2013 @02:06PM (#5577907)
You are right - Indian newspapers usually refer to it only when it is at least tangentially relevant - eg. usually they'll refer to some politician's caste. I consider this to be just as bad because it continues to put caste front and center as a factor to be considered when evaluating a political.
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Re:Shots fired at MIT - report of an active shooter near Bld... by signed0 on Friday April 19, 2013 @06:40AM (#5575862)
The AP just reported that they are from Russia. https://twitter.com/AP/status/325196873486962688

Update: AP now reports the suspect is Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev https://twitter.com/AP/status/325198361428893698

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Re:Shots fired at MIT - report of an active shooter near Bld... by snarf on Friday April 19, 2013 @07:05AM (#5575930)
The update you quoted above has conveniently been deleted from the source now that the AP has done some real reporting and identified the Russian suspects.
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